Latest Stories for January, 2005

 

Chinese Entrepreneurs Buy Franchises

China’s new entrepreneurial class is growing — and companies like McDonald’s and KFC are vying to pick the best and brightest for their franchises. In preparation for entering the World Trade Organization, China is adopting standardized franchise regulations. Now that China…

PowerBlog Review: Ask Crabby

Editor’s note: Welcome to the fiftieth in our regular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of business weblogs. This week we review a blog that is different from any other blog we’ve reviewed. Ask Crabby’s Gazette is a food blog, about seafood. It’s also an eCommerce…

Andy Lark with Lessons for Today’s Business Communicators

This is another in our series of posts about the New Communications Forum “Blog University” held this past week in Napa, California. Andy Lark gave a rousing keynote talk. He spoke about how blogging is changing the way companies are communicating about their businesses and relating to…

More About this Blogging Trend…

The New Communications Forum “Blog University” is now over and I am back in Cleveland. In case you are concerned that I plan to turn Small Business Trends into a “blog for business” megaphone — well, I don’t. I simply happen to believe that blogging is a key…

Live Blogging Day 2 Blog University: More Links

It’s Day 2 of Blog University and I am again live blogging. Right now I am listening to the opening keynote by Andrew Lark of Sun Microsystems. Meanwhile, until I can get a post up on Andy’s keynote, let me point you to some other posts about yesterday’s sessions: Updated:…

Live Blogging from Blog University – How to Write a Blog

This is my third live blogging post from the New Communications Forum “Blog University.” Trudy Schuett of the WOLves blog is leading a relaxed, informal discussion about how to write for a blog. Trudy and I had met up at the Sacramento Airport last evening and drove together to the…

Live Blogging from Blog University – How to Pitch Bloggers

This is my second post in which I am live blogging from the New Communications Forum “Blog University,” here in Napa, California. Right now Alice Marshall of Technoflak is leading a session on “How to Pitch Bloggers.” She’s talking about how PR and corporate marketing…

Live Blogging from Blog University – Blogs vs. Discussion Boards

Today and tomorrow I will be live-blogging from the New Communications Forum “Blog University” in Napa, California. I am out in beautiful California — quite a nice break from cold gray Cleveland where we have a foot of snow. Today I will have a series of posts, relating key…

Trend: Baby Boomers Flood Entrepreneurial Ranks

An article in the Wisconsin Technology Network gives several insightful predictions on trends to watch in 2005. Among them: globalization and outsourcing will continue unabated, and small and medium enterprises will be hot. The prediction that caught my eye, though, is this one entitled…

PowerBlog Review: Phosita

Editor’s note: Could it possibly be the forty-ninth in our regular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of business weblogs already? Yes, it is! Phosita is an intellectual property blog and part of that special genre known as the law blog, or “blawg.” It is the blog of the…

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